L’objet de cette communication est de montrer en quoi le regard croisé d’une analyse quantitative et qualitative a un intérêt profond pour analyser et comprendre les effets sur la santé et la satisfaction au travail des pratiques de travail caractéristiques du lean production. Nous...

L'objet de cet article est de montrer en quoi une méthode mixte permet d’analyser et de comprendre les effets de pratiques organisationnelles caractéristiques de la lean production, sur la satisfaction et la santé au travail et ce, dans le contexte français. Les résultats montrent que...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore organizational factors which are responsible for sickness absence among occupational grades. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken is a quantitative analysis with a multinomial logit model. Findings As unexpected, for blue-collar employees,...

The goal of this study is to analyze the previously unexplored gender and age specific relationship of flextime with absenteeism. This work is based on a French national survey on work organization and working conditions carried out on 25 000 employees. The approach taken is a quantitative...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore organizational factors which are responsible for sickness absence and intent to leave from juniors and to compare these results with those on old age workers. Design/methodology/approach: The approach taken is a quantitative analysis on a total of...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore organizational factors which are responsible for sickness absence and intent to leave from seniors. Design/methodology/approach: The approach taken is a quantitative analysis on a total of 4470 old age workers with a multinomial logit model. Findings:...

The object of the paper is an attempt to develop new indicators for the measurement of work organization. In a nutshell, the aim of our research is to build workable knowledge. Our research will be drawn up from the variables of Karasek and Theorell (1990). We will start by testing the internal...

Workplace bullying is often studied using an individual approach that is centred on a pathological “play” between a torturer and a victim. Conversely, this article employs an organisational approach, as our goal is to analyze the organisational antecedents of workplace bullying. Our study is...

The goal of the article is to present a case study in rail maintenance. This case study describes the consequences of an organizational change (the implementation of lean production) on health at work and absenteeism. This organizational change was followed by a surge of MSDS and absenteeism....